Up ahead the skyline is jagged with the crags of Simon's Seat high on Barden Moor. |
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I became a daring cragsman, a character to which an English lad can seldom aspire, for in England there are neither crags nor mountains. |
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Nest sites include crags or ledges on cliffs, scrapes on the ground, or hollows of trees. |
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The rolling, gentle hills of the borderland of Northern Ireland transform on the turn of a bend into rugged, exposed crags. |
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I first began climbing harder routes in the mountains and on smaller crags when I came up to Oxford. |
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One side is steep forestry and crags, the other is pretty pasture interspersed with little old woods. |
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This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills. |
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Our guide is of indeterminate age, with teeth as exposed and raw as the crags of the mountains around us. |
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Our original intention was to climb the slopes north of the lochan and so avoid the crags that form the corrie walls. |
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The route now begins to climb up beside those crags and into a high corrie before turning back on itself for the final push to the summit. |
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The crags take on mushroom shapes, the track is wet in places, with streams that seem permanent to judge by their two species of pondweed. |
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At times, representation segues into abstraction, as in the crags of the town quarry, which suggest constructivist triangles and squares. |
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As we chugged along the vivid green Wuyang River towards Dragon King Gorge, thickly forested crags and pinnacles of rock rose high above. |
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He floats for two days and when he nears the land all he can see are violent crags and cliffs. |
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From there a path twists its way through outcropping crags and tiny lochans to the summit, perched precariously on top of its own little crag. |
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From here tackle the eroded path which climbs the steep slopes just east of Ben Vrackie's SW crags. |
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Visually, the city keeps you enthralled, with its setting atop a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags. |
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Both ranges are soft from age but covered in brushy pine forests, knobby granite crags, and hiking and biking trails. |
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Shortly after passing a group of holly trees, the path starts to bear left over more boggy ground, and the upper slopes and crags come into view. |
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Prominent conglomerate crags occur at two locations, the faces well-vegetated with navelwort, common polypody, other herbs, ferns, and mosses. |
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The wind gently stirs, softly whistling as it swirls in the crevices and crags of the mountainside. |
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Behind the cabin was a large empty yard and beyond that trees and steep hillsides topped with pink cliffs and crags. |
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They are replete with rocky crags, waterfalls, brooding skies and, in one case, a baleful moon straight out of a Caspar David Friedrich painting. |
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Orphaned as a baby and now something of a wild spirit, she shares her secrets with Danny in their private place on the nearby rocky crags. |
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It is a shrub, rather than a tree, and its size will be limited on the crags because of the wild weather conditions it has to endure. |
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McCarthy's angular face, a weather-beaten mask of crags and furrows, hides an inner core filled with Yorkshire steel and Irish charm. |
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In high school we double-dated, built snow caves, climbed the local crags. |
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Now we were driving through bleak glens with stunted conifers, gushing ice-melt streams and mist snagged in tattered veils on the crags like the wraiths of lost warriors. |
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In his paintings, with their air-spun castles and dense, rocky crags, presented in thick, hazy, heavily impastoed surfaces, the world is remote and ever retreating. |
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While Meall a'Ghiubhais is a straightforward climb from the path, the steep screes and formidable northern crags of Ruadh-stac Beag makes a direct ascent almost impossible. |
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Scots may want to come over all Runrig bestriding mighty crags, but they are really Arab Straps, moaning about damp and impotence in provincial housing schemes. |
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Within two or three hours' sail of Glasgow one could find an almost pristine solitude of purple heather and solemn crags all unprofaned by watering-place gaiety or luxury. |
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Looking north-westwards from the summit, across the fjord-like Loch Etive, lies Beinn Trilleachean with its granite sweep of crags known as the Etive Slabs. |
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Mr Cooper said his friend took the lead as he was more experienced at climbing crags since he was an old hand at scaling Stanage Edge in the Peak District. |
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He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment. |
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Mountains and chalky crags abut the broad, deep-green swale of larch forests and hay-meadows of the Ampezzo Valley, just an hour's drive east of Canazei. |
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Over my shoulder, mighty crags dwarf patchworks of barley fields. |
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Down in the valley, Gawain saw nothing but hills and rocky crags. |
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By now they would be on the high crags or over the Sierra crest. |
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There was a mottled rocky slope with spiky crags reaching into cloud. |
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Dale Head Mine was driven below the northern crags for copper, several levels still being visible. |
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The watershed narrows to fine ridge, steep enough on the Ennerdale side and rimmed by crags throughout above the head of Buttermere. |
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The rocky crags and caves attract climbers and potholers from across the globe and green valleys are popular with walkers. |
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The history of climbing on these crags is documented by a book by The Fell and Rock Climbing Club called Nowt but a fleein' thing. |
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There are few crags on the eastern slopes, although these fall steeply to Styhead Tarn, a feeder of the Borrowdale system. |
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However, many hillwalkers become proficient in scrambling, an activity involving use of the hands for extra support on the crags. |
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Helvellyn is seen to good advantage, beyond the crags of Dove Crag and Fairfield and over Deepdale Hause. |
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From St Sunday Crag onwards the northern crags of Fairfield are seen in their full and wild glory. |
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The western slopes of these summits tend to be grassy, with rocky corries and crags on the eastern side. |
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The eastern side of the ridge is characterised by steep drops and crags including Craig Berwyn north of the summit and Craig y Llyn to the south. |
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Villa Gella's setting is glorious, with nothing to be seen on every side but blueish crags and regiments of giant, ramrod-backed firs. |
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There are still some traces of the jetties by which the coal was imported and the lime exported close by at the foot of the crags. |
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The 1998 guidebook lists 26 separate crags, with a total of about 900 routes of all grades. |
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Steep rocky crags guard the whole western side of the fell, rising abruptly from the green valley of St John's in the Vale. |
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Running like an immense rip in the earth, a snaggy line of dizzying clefts and crags traced the mountains' edge. |
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Two tiers of impressive crags run the full length of the fell from Wind Gap in the west to Black Sail Pass in the east. |
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Below the crags the gradient is not quite as severe as on the Wasdale side, slopes running down to the bank of the River Liza. |
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The rough summit plateau is fringed by crags on all sides with Pikes Crag and Dropping Crag above Wasdale and Rough Crag to the east. |
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At the eastern end is Blackbeck Tarn, a long slender pool which overflows through a cleft in the crags. |
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The northern face of Haystacks is topped by crags which giving a soaring curved profile from the settlement of Gatesgarth at their base. |
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My room at the Slieve Donard Resort and Spa, which takes its name from the range's highest peak, has views of the crags and Newcastle's sandy beach. |
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The northern crags expose some granophyric granite of the Ennerdale Intrusion, together with the bedded breccias, sandstones and tuffs of the Round How Member. |
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Alternatively, there are various paths up the mountain from lower down the valley which offer the possibility of closer acquaintance with the crags of the north face. |
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In 1836 five boys hunting for rabbits found a set of 17 miniature coffins containing small wooden figures in a cave on the crags of Arthur's Seat. |
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Erosive action such as plucking and abrasion exposed the rocky crags to the west before leaving a tail of deposited glacial material swept to the east. |
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More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple. |
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Fine views of the crags of the surrounding combs complete the foreground. |
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On this side are high crags, wild combes and a small tarn, Bleaberry Tarn. |
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The northern face of the fell forming the dalehead is ringed with crags. |
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But on the east crags looming impressively over upper Eskdale, and on the north side Scafell Crag provides some the finest rock scenery in the Lake District. |
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These are often seen in the field as flat surfaces above steep crags, the crags themselves being formed due to the more crystalline, lower portions of each flow. |
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Another narrow path leads from Threlkeld Knotts, slanting up through the crags and scree of Red Screes to emerge on the west shoulder of Clough Head. |
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Smooth sweeping slopes predominate with a minimum of tarns or crags. |
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Here it is flanked by the rocky crags of Castle Crag and Grange Fell. |
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From Threlkeld Knotts there is a striking view of Red Screes just above, and a narrow path slants up through the crags to the west shoulder of Clough Head. |
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